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Two facts stand out from even the most cursory inspection of income distribution data in Latin America. First, income is highly concentrated, making the region one of the most unequal in the world. Second, despite the fact that the region has now reached an intermediate position among the world's nations in terms of per capita income (some US$2,000 per year on average), a level which, by historical standards, would presuppose a more equitable distribution of income, this has not happened. In fact, the distribution of income in Latin America has become, if anything, more highly skewed than ever. The question then is: why is this so? The explanation forms the heart of this paper. Precisely because neither of these statements would hold if the countries to which they apply were either "average" or "well-behaved," the explanation thatfollows assumesa "neostructuralist perspective" (Lustig, 1991) — i.e., one that ascribes causality to a number of regional charactristics related to its history and the interaction among its factor, cultural, and institutional endowments.

Analiza las politicas de estabilizacion y el proceso de ajuste en los anos recientes de Argentina, Chile y Uruguay. Establece con que costo productivo y distributivo se corrigieron los desequilibrios, y determina en que medida las intervenciones eran inevitables y a que politicas especificas podria atribuirse su fracaso

Analiza las politicas de estabilizacion y el proceso de ajuste en los anos recientes de Argentina, Chile y Uruguay. Establece con que costo productivo y distributivo se corrigieron los desequilibrios, y determina en que medida las intervenciones eran inevitables y a que politicas especificas podria atribuirse su fracaso

Este articulo examina como se absorvio el acelerado crecimiento demografico que se produjo durante el periodo post-guerra en America Latina. A juicio del autor, el incremento de oferta de trabajo encontro salida en empleo productivo gracias a la dinamica del crecimiento economico durante las ultimas decadas, hasta 1980, ano en que Latinoamerica empieza a sufrir una crisis economica aguda que invierte esta tendencia